Post-modern western civilization as a whole, as every single player defining it by operating into its borders, seems to be definitely affected by a permanent search for identity. Who am I? Assertive answers to such question seem not to be anymore able to outlive small cycles, eventually lasting a couple of hours. “I am an accountant” was the typical, assertive stance XXth century accountants where very likely used to offer when it came to define their own identity and role in social interaction. Any other definition basically sounded as a lie. Such affirmative stance sounds now very naïve, not to mention partial, as soon as individual identity looks like an operator surfing through categories expressed by a tag cloud. Being an accountant, a bass guitar player and a decent thai cook, the very same guy is actually able to milk the money he relies on for a living in a completely different from, say, a colleague accountant being even into, say, sailing and ironing. Plastic identities seem to require plastic shifting from one activity to another, not to mention combining many of them into the same framework. As far as amateurial talents and professional skills merge into complex systems, eventualism emerge as a new positioning strategy.
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In the doom of eventualist art
Posted in art, Eventualism, imagine, items, large room, loft with tags being an eventualist, Eventualism on December 29, 2007 by lorfpageImagine a very large room with nothing inside unless, eventually, some items of any kind.
Maybe, once you’re inside, a number of individuals will enter the room and start, or not, to do something with or without those items.
You do not know who these people are. You don’t know if you could/should interact with them or if you could/should not. In facts, nobody told you something about what it is supposed to be acted, interacted or whatever in that large room.
You only know you’re in a place who is supposed to be one example of eventualist art.
So, leave yourself doing something, eventually.
“Do you like Led Zeppelin?”
Posted in chocolate, cloud, led zeppelin, weather with tags Eventualism on December 21, 2007 by Angelo MorganWhat can you answer when people address you question like this one? I mean, typical conversations, both face-to-face and web based are filled up with plenty of questions you can just answer in a very awkward way… Do you like chocolate? Do you like clowdy weather? I mean… everybody of us may like everything… eventually…
It’s about xmas, eventually…
Posted in Caring, Christmas, Cultural Difference, Eventualism, Not giving a damn with tags Eventualism on December 20, 2007 by eventualismWell, of course it depends if you have any idea of what xmas is for example. What if you completely forget what day is it because you are on valium? Not to mention cultural issues as belonging to a community who couldn’t care less about xmas. As you can easily see, eventualism® definitely apply to xmas in a very pertinent way.